Kwame Edwards is a self-described aesthetic engineer. More specifically, he is an ethnographic filmmaker, sociology professor, international education advocate, HBCU advocate, music enthusiast, and global Diaspora cultural connoisseur from Washington DC. His film work specializes in the experiences of the African Diaspora, in order to showcase overlooked narratives. He serves as the creative director of KMATiKC Media LLC, based in Ward 8. His film career began in 2013, while living in Shenzhen, China. He began interviewing Black expatriates living there in order to make a single documentary. After interviewing over 40 people around the the People's Republic of China, he then shifted from one singular documentary and turned it into a fifteen episode series called “Black in China,” with the purpose of "creating a resource for Black people who were considering moving and those who were actually moving to China, since our nuanced expat experience was often overlooked [at the time]”. After some coaxing by his peers, he ran a successful KickStarter campaign to purchase enhanced equipment and shoot season 2 in 2015, and subsequently season 3 in 2017. In 2015, in-between stints living in China, he moved briefly to Qatar. While there, he made a similar limited series called “Black in Doha”. Also that year, he took his first group of HBCU undergraduate students abroad. In 2017, he began production on his first feature length documentary, which wrapped post-production in 2019. This documentary’s subject matter focuses more locally, as it identifies and seeks to alleviate the disparate conditions various Black communities in DC. The film focuses on how Plexiglas barriers in stores is just further symptom of racism against the native Black people of the city. "68" was selected and featured during Busboys and Poets Focus-In! Film Series: Cinema for a Conscious Community as the first film screened at the Anacostia location in April 2019. The film also earned Kwame the distinction of being the Washington DC Office of Cable, Television, Film, Media and Entertainment's July 2019 Filmmaker of the Month. In 2020, Kwame completed the Documentary Filmmaking Graduate Certificate at The George Washington University Columbian College of Arts and Sciences School of Media & Public Affairs Documentary Center, where two films two short films were completed to his credit: "Interrupted Greatness," a short documentary about Fred Hampton, and "Heartbeat of the City," a short documentary about the intersection of gogo music and gentrification. He also co-founded the Saturday Night Bike Club with social worker Natalie Noel during the summer of 2020, with the goal of providing people a low-impact, healthy method of enjoying and actively engaging with the Black history Washington, D.C., area. The club has since grown, providing youth mentorship, hosting women's only rides, sponsoring a developmental amateur race team, hosting inclusive bike inclusive races, bike protest actions, and partnering with local Black owned businesses. Kwame 's sociological perspective is grounded in structural functionalism, symbolic interactionism and conflict theory. He is a proud member of Groove Phi Groove SFI. He has taught various sociology courses including the Sociology of Hip-Hop and Race and Ethnic Relations at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Maryland College Park, the Community College of Baltimore County, American University, and Bowie State University. He has guest lectured at Wolfson College of the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England), Heilongjiang University (Harbin, China) and the University of Havana (Havana, Cuba). His undergraduate and graduate degrees were earned at Bowie State University and UMBC respectively. Currently, Kwame is in production of a nonfiction film about Black freedom and resistance. He just finished his first season as a bike racer. KMATiKC Media LLC is a media company that specializes in telling the stories of the African Diaspora. Their work can be found at http://www.KMATiKC.com, on Instagram @kmatikcmedia, on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/kmatikcmedia, and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/kmatikc/ . His personal Instagram/Twitter is @kmatikc